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...biggest interests: fantasy baseball.The Average Fantasy Joe puts together a league with his buddies and picks up players whose names he recognizes or who have done well for his favorite team. But Swanay—with nearly two decades as an actuary under his belt and a deep reservoir of baseball knowledge—had no intentions of being average. When Swanay began playing fantasy baseball, he didn’t rely on gut instinct or subjective judgments to form his teams. He plugged countless numbers into spreadsheets, using advanced quantitative methods to value players and to create rankings that...
...auto companies have a huge reservoir of public affection from which to draw. Outside of some Congress members from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, there haven't been many voices speaking out with any variation of "Save Detroit...
...parts of the country are now sneezing, sniffling and coughing their way through yet another achy flu season. If there is any solace in the suffering, it's that so far, the Big One - the pandemic that experts predict could emerge from birds or cats or some other animal reservoir at any time - has yet to strike. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...this feeling that science has gone only so far, and all there is left to do is to pick up the scraps,” Lichtman says. “That couldn’t be farther from the truth with the brain. There is just this incredible reservoir of questions.”—Staff writer Paul C. Mathis can be reached at pcmathis@fas.harvard.edu...
...Through air that shimmers in the blast furnace of a July day, you can see how far Mead's water level has fallen. White bathtub rings of mineral deposits, measuring high-water marks that grow less high every year, circle the edges of the reservoir. Today Mead's water level is 1,108 ft., down from more than 1,200 ft. in 2000. (The official drought level is 1,125 ft.) If the water continues to decline, says marine geophysicist Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, "buckle up." Barnett co-authored a study estimating a 50% chance that...